Guests from Egypt, Morocco and the Emirates via its virtual platform

“Arab Approaches to Ramadan Rituals” at the Sultan Al Owais Foundation

A qualitative audience of researchers and intellectuals from inside and outside the Emirates watched the evening.

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The Sultan Bin Ali Al Owais Cultural Foundation organized, the day before yesterday, a virtual discussion session entitled “Arab Approaches to Ramadan Rituals”, through its virtual platform on the Al Owais website, and it was broadcast live on YouTube.

Abdulaziz Al-Musallam, head of the Sharjah Heritage Institute, Dr. Mustafa Jad, Dean of the Higher Institute for Folk Art in Egypt, and Moroccan researcher and writer Aziz Raznara participated in the seminar. Egypt and Morocco.

Fatima Al-Sayegh, a member of the Board of Trustees, welcomed the evening's participants and thanked them for the seminar that brings to mind the world of Ramadan rituals, which are similar in most regions of the Arab world with slight local differences that give a special aesthetic flavor to each Arab spot, and the evening was attended by a specific audience of researchers and intellectuals from within the Emirates And beyond.

Abdulaziz Al-Musallam also referred to the Ramadan customs in the Emirates and the games that are active during the holy month, as well as songs, songs, folk proverbs, evening parties and Ramadan dishes, which are still ongoing in many regions and passed from one generation to the next with a contemporary touch that gives them more flavor.

In his turn, Mostafa Gad, Dean of the Higher Institute for Folk Arts in Egypt, referred to the joyful rituals of Ramadan in Egypt, and presented with pictures some of the vocabulary of life in Egypt, including foods, clothes, songs, proverbs, and others that marked the Egyptian society with the peculiarity of its distinction among the rest of societies.

Aziz Zarnara also toured the regions of Morocco, reviewing their habits and ways of receiving them for the month of Ramadan, and pointed out that many Moroccans called the holy month "Sidi Ramadan", in an appreciation of the lofty meanings it carries.

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